Ticket-holder



E. 1. BUCKREIS. TICKET HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 2.1920.

Patented Dec. 20, 1921.

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ELMER JOHNBUGKREIS, or Hicnwoon, ILLINOIS.

' TICKET-HOLDER.

Specification ofLetters Patent. Patented Beg, 2Q), 1921,

Application filed J'u1y 2, 1920. Serial No. 393,727.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that l, ELMER J. Buonnnrs, a citizen of the United States, residingat l-lighwood, Lake county, Illinois, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Clicket-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices for holding a stack, package or pack of card-board slips or tickets, and has particular reference to holders for what are commonly known as conductors hat-checks bearing a railway conductors notations showing destination to which a passengers fare has been paid and usually placed in the hat of the passenger or held in a wall clip opposite the passengers seat.

The object of the present improvement is to provide a more convenient means for holding these hat-checks in packs than the usual paper wrapper, rubber-band or box which interfere with the convenient withdrawal of the topmost check and obstruct the face of the check so that notations ca not be made thereon while still supported on the pack, and with this object in view my invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts, hereinafter described in detail, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and more particularly pointed out in the appended claims. in the drawing Figure l is a perspective view of two packs of checks held by a holder embodying my invention, and drawn to approximately full size scale.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the interior of the holder base and a section taken substantially on the line 2-2 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 3 is an edge view of the holder with the parts in normal position when not in use. Figs. 2 and 3 being drawn to an enlarged scale.

Conductors are usually provided with.

hat checks in two colors, one color representing through fares and the other stops at way stations, and in the several views is shown a double holder with a base 2 in the form of an elongated link or loop made of tin or sheet metal and providing a space 3 therewithin in which is mounted a series of spring coils l to 11 formed of the ends of U-shaped spring-wire loops 12, 13, 14.- and held between interior walls 16 and 17 of said hollow base 2 and adjustable into dif ferent positions along its length. In Fig.

l the members l2and 13 are shown clamped onto a package ofchecks 18 representing one of said colors or kinds of checks and placed against one of the outer sides of said base, while the members 1% and 15 are engaged with apack 19 of the other series of checks, r

As indicated in Figs. 2 and 8 the clips or clamps 12 to 15 are spring-tensioned' by their coils i to 11 to normally lie fiat against the opposite sides of the base 2, which makes the holder thin and compact when not in use or when only a few checks remain in it, while adjustable, as in Fig. 1, to hold an ample pack of checks of each kind. By

grasping the cross-bars 20 and 21 of each pair of clamps between the thumb and forefinger when in their Figs. 2 and 3 position, slightly raising them and pressing them toward each other the holder for each pack may be opened widely so that the pack may be inserted with ease. The cross bars 20 and 21 being ordinary spring-wire and therefore round in cross-section permit drawing the topmost check from under them without tearing and without lifting the spring, or disturbing the balance of the pack. At the same time they do not obstruct the face of the check bearing the usual printed form and spaces, but leave said face fully exposed to receive notations while it is supported by the pack or the base.

Each of the spring coils 4- to 11 terminates in a lug 22 which is soldered or otherwise secured to the interior wall 16 or 17, and if said lugs should become accidentally loosened the device would still be operative because the walls of the space 3 would serve as stops for the lugs to prevent rotation of the spring coils with the clamps 12 to 15 which would then be adjustable between the double walls. The parallel side bars of these U-shaped members hold the spring coils, even when loose, as aforesaid, against lateral displacement from the space 3, which in a full size device need not be more than about one-eighth of an inch in depth. Thus several of these holders can be conveniently carried in an ordinary vest pocket. This form and arrangement of parts is designed to be manufactured at a small cost, to provide a construction which cannot easily be rendered inoperative, and one which is practically indestructible by its ordinary service.

In Fig. 1 the clamps 20 and 21 are shown holding down one end of the pack while the other end of the pack is free so that one or more cards or checks may be lifted whole, or Without lifting the spring loop.

I claim as my invention- In a check holder, the combination with a hollow base-plate, of :spring-tensioned U-shaped loops normally held within and at one'end of said base-plate and adapted to yieldingly clamp "one end of a pack of checks I against said base-plateleaving the other end of said pack free. i

2. Ina check-holder, the combination with a hollow base-plate, of U-shaped loops pivot- I ally movable relative to said base-plate, and

spring-tension loops adjustable alongsaid base-plate and tensioned to-hold said loops against said base-plate. I

3. In a check-holder, abase-plate with double walls and a space therebetween, a series of rotatable U-shaped clamps on opposite sides of said base-plate and having spring-tension coils in said space which may be held at any point along said space. V 4. In a check-holder, the combination with a base-plate providing bases for a pair of packs of checks,of spring coils between said bases and adjustable therealong, said coils havin U-sha ed looos extendin therefrom over both said base-plates.

In testimony whereof signed my name.

ELMER JOHN BUCKREIS.

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